New additions highlight Korean culture wave as interest in the country’s food, fashion and entertainment spreads The Korean culture wave has swept through the editorial offices of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which has added more than 20 new wo…
Taiwan reports record Chinese incursions into its air defence zone
Defence ministry says it detected at least 56 flights hours after US urged Beijing to cease ‘provocative’ activityChina sent a record number of military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defence zone on Monday, the fourth consecutive day of such air incursion…
‘People arrived for work and got vaporised’: how Kikuji Kawada captured the trauma of Hiroshima
The holy grail of Japanese photobooks, Kawada’s Chizu was five years in the making and changes hands for £25,000 a copy. Now a new edition revisits his personal archeology of a nation’s painKikuji Kawada was 25 when he visited Hiroshima for the first t…
Park Ji-sung urges Manchester United fans not to sing chant with ‘racial insult’
United fans reprised chant for Hwang Hee-chan at Wolves gamePark tells club podcast the song still causes him ‘discomfort’The former Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung has urged the club’s fans to stop singing a song about him that contains a ne…
New Zealand Covid elimination strategy to be phased out, Ardern says
Prime minister says the use of vaccines means country now has ‘more options’ on how to control virus See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s elimination strategy will be phased out in favour of a new model that takes into account vaccination rate…
China flies record 39 planes over Taiwan defence zone in national day show of force
Taipei says Chinese jets and bombers crossed zone as Beijing marked the anniversary of the founding of the People’s RepublicA record 39 Chinese military jets crossed into Taiwan’s defence zone as Beijing marked the founding of the People’s Republic of …
‘I’m quitting politics’, says Rodrigo Duterte – for a second time
Fears that controversial leader is lining up his daughter as his successorPhilippine president Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he will retire from politics and abandon his bid to become vice-president in next year’s election, fuelling speculation th…
‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
It is the ‘mystery that must be solved’ – seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on boardSomewhere in the vast expanse of Earth’s oceans lies MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on 8 March…
‘Clearly not working’: How New Zealand’s consensus on striving for Covid zero is finally cracking
As Auckland grapples with Delta outbreak, opposition leaders dare to break with Jacinda Ardern on pandemic plan“Things have changed,” Judith Collins declares, sitting in her Beehive government office. New Zealand’s National party leader is fresh off la…
Coronavirus treatments: the potential ‘game-changers’ in development
After positive clinical trials for antiviral drug Molnupiravir, it joins other medicines that have shown promiseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first clinical trial results showing a positive effect for a pill that can b…